Industry Performance

The continued fallout from the UK’s vote to exit the European Union has punished investors with exposure not only in that country but in the rest of Europe too.  No assets have been hit harder than British real estate, but investors in the British stock market, European stocks, and European real estate have suffered as well. 

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Investment real estate values increased by +4.4% during June 2016 according to the FTSE NAREIT PureProperty® Index Series, which provides the earliest measurement of changes in the market values of properties held for investment purposes.  The South region saw the strongest appreciation at +5.1% but properties appreciated strongly in other regions as well with implied values up +4.8% in the Midwest, +4.0% in the East, and +3.6% in the West.

Over the two market days following the Brexit vote U.S. stock market volatility more than doubled, from 9.9% (below its inter-quartile range) to 22.0% (above its IQR)—but U.S. REIT market volatility nudged up by barely one-seventh, from 9.6% to 10.9%.

Equity REITs significantly expanded their holdings of income producing real estate in recent years, buying a total of $260 billion of commercial property between 2011 and 2015. 

Investment real estate values increased by +0.57 percent during May 2016 according to the FTSE NAREIT PureProperty® Index Series, which provides the earliest measurement of changes in the market values of properties held for investment purposes.  The South region saw the strongest appreciation at +2.02 percent.

Financial markets have been troubled by a decline in corporate profits. Earnings per share of the S&P 500 fell 7.6 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared to last year, prompting a drop in equity prices and concerns about the outlook. But trends are going the other direction in real estate.